Modern Panic VIArtistsIn alphabetical order

Gary Alford [UK]

Gary Alford is a self taught artist from London. He has worked commercially on album cover and promotional artwork for a number of artists and bands including RZA and various members of his Wu-Tang Clan, The Black Heart Procession, Yeah And She Has Red Lips Too, Mister Susan and more.

In 2006 he created The Book Of Dead Children, a collection of quick illustrations and writings along the themes of: dreams, supernatural experiences, premonitions, local tales and urban myths. Some of the images are inspired by or contain the lyrics from bands including Nick Cave, The Black Heart Procession whom Alford later worked with after showing them the book, Arcade Fire and Thom Yorke. Arcade Fire's Win Butler and The Black Heart Processions' Pall Jenkins have contributed to the book after seeing it and friends have been invited to write on its pages so as to keep the book developing as piece of art and a record of life experiences.

Miki Aurora [Canada]

Miki Aurora (born May 4th, 1993) is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Vancouver, Canada. She migrated from Singapore with her family, at the age of four. Aurora’s works span a variety of mediums--including video, performance and post-conceptual objets d’ art. Through a visual language trademarked by an often morose and ethereal nature, her oeuvre presents recurring investigations on psychology, spirituality, occultism, and female archetypes. Aurora studied at the Metafora Institut d'Art y Arteterapia in Barcelona, Spain, where she initially began her foray into video and performance--producing and exhibiting the first two installments of her ritualistic Whore of Babylon series in local Catalonian galleries. Since returning from Barcelona to Vancouver in 2013, she has expanded her practice to include interdisciplinary curatorial projects, through which she aims to provide exhibition platforms for other emerging artists.

Franko B [Italy]

Franko B was born in Milan, Italy and currently lives and works in London

The life and work of Franko B is situated somewhere between isolation and seduction, benevolence and confrontation, suffering and eroticism, punk and poetry. It is a certain type of schizophrenia that finds a balance, dramatically undermining the status quo.

Franko B has presented work at Tate Modern, ICA (London), South London Gallery, Arnolfini (Bristol), Palais des Beaux Artes (Brussels), Beaconsfiled (London), Bluecoat Centre (Liverpool), in Mexico City, Berlin, Copenhagen, Madrid and Vienna, Tate Liverpool, RuArts Foundation (Moscow), Victoria and Albert Museum (London), Freud Museum (London), PAC (Milan), Contemporary Art Centre (Copenhagen) and many more. His works are in the collections of the Tate, Victoria and Albert Museum, South London Gallery, the permanent collection of the City of Milan and /political, London.

Charlotte Bailey [UK]

Charlotte Bailey of ‘Hanging By A Thread’, is a freelance hand-embroidery artist specialising in the intricate, the fiddly, the figurative and the fantastic. Determined to carve a niche for herself in a world stereotyped by 'granny's hobby' and overly kitsch connotations of craft, her personal practice represents a contemporary re-working of a technique decidedly lacking in rock-and-roll. Embroidery has huge potential as a fine-art medium in its own right and should be recognised for more than its stereotypes currently suggest.

During her degree at the Royal School of Needlework, Bailey successfully learnt to combine traditional technique with her own unique approach to subject matter. This approach remains fundamental to her embroidery practice – maintaining an exceptionally high quality of technical execution and integrating her stitching skill into any work she produces. However, Bailey's dark sense of humour would far rather have her stitching roadkill than pet portraits. She is the proud and perverted 'black sheep' the Royal School of Needlework told off for having too few clothes on her pin-up girl pieces.

Alongside Bailey's personal practice, she has worked on commissions for London Fashion Week, Mary Katrantzou, Louis Vuitton and the Duchess of Cambridge's wedding dress. However, as part of the final project for her current Masters Degree, she is re-working traditional ecclesiastical techniques into irreverent religious icons commenting on the adoration and obsession of anorexia. Bailey strongly believes her work conveys an important emotional message, has profound potential to open conversation and is beautiful to boot.

Bakhtiyar Berkin [Kazakhstan]

Bakhtiyar Berkin was born Kazakhstan in 1991. His father worked in Chicago so traveling back and forth between countries a lot. He came to London in 2012 and studied a BA in Fine Art Photography in Camberwell College of Arts. Recently Berkin was accepted for an MA Photography course at LCC.

Through out his childhood and adolescence, Berkin suffered from recurring sleep paralysis episodes. During these episodes he experienced a state where she was mentally awake but his body paralyzed in deep sleep state. These episodes were accompanied by very vivid hallucinations. These experiences helped Berkin to learn how to accept contradiction between dream and reality. It gave him inspiration to bring these unnerving, illogical scenes in to everyday life. This is why he chose surrealism as her photographic style.

"I feel that creating surrealistic photographs allows my unconscious to be expressed.In my work I try to transform the existence by building surrealist sets. I build them using solely unwanted, scrape or very cheap items. I find that the whole process of collecting those cheap items is very philosophical, as it shows how something unwanted can be transformed into something that would convey very deep and valuable meaning for me."

Candyconk [UK]

London based Artistic duo, Toni Tits & Tuttii Fruittii also known as CANDYKONK.

Tuttii Fruittii is a South-East London based Klöwn, Artist, Performer, Boundary-pushing hairdresser, operating from her own psychedelic Trailer salon, as well as Innovative Costume Designer & Creator of All female Tribe “Haus of SEQUANA”. She has been involved in working with Internationale Magazines including Another Man, Vision, Neu HQ, Mother and Established Fashion Photographers such as Nick Knight, Kim Ye Love, Paul Green, Anthony Lycett, Antonio Mingot, Maximus Barnett & Michelle Webb for the MOMA.She has also Styled (Hair & Make-up) Music videos and Photoshoots for various Artists including Mc Gaff E, Barbarella’s Bang Bang and My Bad Sister during and after their world tour with the Pet Shop Boys.

Toni Tits is a South-East based Klöwn Artist, Video editor, Costume Maker and Performing member of “HAUS of Sequana”. She has worked and lived in France for the passed 23 years during which time she completed her Bachelors and Masters in Fine Art at the Beaux Arts University in Nantes, where she also was an active part of the Queer nightlife and Activist groups such as the DurEs a Queers. She is currently working with Tuttii Fruittii’s Trailer Salon on Graphics and Video Promotion. She has also been involved as a Self-Styled Candy Klown with well-established magazines and photographers such as Kim Ye Love for Vision Magazine, Paul Green of More Human Modelling agency, Damien Frost, Maximus Barnett & Michelle Webb for MOMA, NY and Artist Poem Baker.

Christophe Richart Carrozza [Italy]

Christophe Richart Carrozza has been student of Alejandro Jodorowsky for 23 years and his personal assistant for 8. He now teaches Tarot, Metagenealogy and Psychomagic internationally, and has created workshops in Italy, Spain, Chile, Argentina, Brazil & Paraguay.He currently lives in Chile.

Iain Coiley [UK]

Iain Coiley was born in London and currently works as a welder and a metal sculptor. As a fully trained welder in various processes and metals Coiley realized he had a definitive medium in which he could work with, giving him an outlet for expression. Coiley works with The Mutoid Waste Company in London.

Since Modern Panic 2011 he has worked on major projects including the Paralympic closing ceremony-2012, The Phoenix, Rolling Stones Glastonbury-2013, The Lost Tea Party, Burning Man-2014 and has just recently returned from Glastonbury, finishing a 6 month project. Also in that time has had work exhibited at Artcore International 14-2014 and various other installations.

Boldizsar CR [Budapest]

Boldizsar is self taught filmmaker with a background in Sociology and Video Art UCA Maidstone (MA). He was born and raised in Budapest and started filmmaking in his early twenties inspired by arthouse cinema.

Coming from a doctor’s family with a psychoanalytic mother he explored the artist way of life himself. He soon realised his call was to become a crossover and maverick filmmakerdoing it by himself as a way of life rather then a career. He developed an individual style with a very strong visual look and control throughout the entire process.

Since he moved to London he explored the exciting East London scene as a creative working on short film projects especially in Music and Fashion with a focus on exciting personality and people.

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule [Australia]

Orryelle Defenestrate-Bascule is an esoteric artist in many media, including painting, writing, sculpture, sound and performance art. His 'Tela Quadrivium' series of interweaving alchemical art books are published by Fulgur Limited (the final volume ‘Distillatio’ released June 2015).He is the writer-director of Australian-based Metamorphic Ritual Theatre Company who have presented many major original productions based in (and updating/mutating) various ancient mythos, and he often performs and exhibits internationally.

His work engages with connecting the subconscious and conscious through employment of magical and mythical symbols and archetypes, as a part of the vanguard of current resurgence in esoteric arts balanced between the conceptual and the aesthetic.

David Dellagi[Denmark]

David Dellagi is a Danish-born artist currently living and working in London. He works with a multitude of different mediums such as painting, sculpture, film, collage and print. The focus of his practice is creating imaginary images and inner mental landscapes that contain philosophical ideas about the nature of reality, the body and the mind. Primal themes such as birth, death, sex, violence and evolution have always been at the core of his curiosity. To Dellagi they seem much more real than subjects that deal with the social ladder or the politics of society. He uses the method of juxtaposition of unharmonious elements a lot. There is a violence inherent in the act of mashing these elements together that is both poetic and points to new forms of expression and acts of imagination. As such, Dellagi's practice is within the orbit of Surrealism.

He has exhibited widely in his native country Denmark and also in places such as New York City, Los Angeles, Mexico City and London. In 2014, He participated in the travelling exhibition “After Surrealism”, being shown at various museums and art halls in Denmark. It was an historic overview of Surrealist influences in Danish art since the 1930’s and onwards. In 2016 he will have a solo exhibition at The Fondazione Aldega in Italy.

Jan Hakon Erichsen [Norway]

Jan Hakon Erichsen is a Norwegian artist who works within a variety of media focusing on topics like fear, anger and frustration. He has spent several years perfecting a D.I.Y aesthetic with found objects being the main source of work material. Erichsen has exhibited widely in Norwegian and international galleries and partaken in numerous international video festivals after he finished his education at the National Academy of Arts in Oslo.

Isa Farfan [Spain]

Isa Farfan was born in Southern Spain. She spent the last half of her degree as a traveler living almost everywhere in Europe, to settle in London 5 years ago.

Farfan artwork is a hand drawn collage of different images created by a hyperbolic amount of lines on paper, representing images that look somehow dark.

Her work has been defined as "happy pictures" pieces that want to express a deep anguish or perceive what was intended to be a pleasant picture as genuinely disturbing. Farfan considers this perceptive duality one of the most interesting aspects of her work.

The process from how she creates the artwork is completely intuitive to Farfan, starting from just a small idea (a face, a sentence or just a gesture) and adding different meanings, messages and images to it as she draws.

Andru Fijalkowski[UK]

Raised in Staffordshire, now based in Somerset. From early years he made and created things, mostly from wood. Later, when the opportunity arose, he spent several enjoyable and enlightening years being guided along the sculpture trail by Stuart Osbourne (who had been tutored by the sculptor Jacob Epstein), studying the human figure and nature. This was closely followed by a British Council Scholarship to ‘Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts’, Poland.Fijalkowski has been a member of various artists’ groups, including several in Scotland and also joined the Shona sculptors of Zimbabwe, to learn stone carving and the wood carvers in Soweto, Africa, to follow their techniques. He has enjoyed working with a variety of materials, from clay to life-casting, plus carving centuries old bog oak (fossilized wood).

Considered an ‘outsider artist’, Fijalkowski explore his ideas through sculpture, using a variety of media. Working alone, his artwork is created by hand, telling stories from my life and other peoples. The 3 sculptures chosen for Guerrilla Zoo’s 'Modern Panic' exhibition are from the series ‘Hookers and Lookers’. Each life-size work begins with a bag of plaster, creating the figure, which is then ‘dressed’, using layers of various materials, including mirror and ostrich eggshell mosaic, found objects, treated rolled lead and glow paint.Fijalkowski's creations are painstaking. Each sculpture is an edition of one, taking many months to complete. “Fijalkowski works alone and his pieces have a peculiarly lonely quality, a pathos that is attractive and effective in conveying his story”, Helen Carey art critic / author

Glenn Fitzpatrick [UK]

Glenn Fitzpatrick, born Gravesend 1971, nick-named “Fitzy” by his friends in the army, first started getting recognised for his artistic abilities when he was requested to draw motifs on the military hardware within his regiment (Queens Royal Irish Hussars). This consisted of drawing modified dessert rat logos on the sides of tanks, missiles and armoured personnel carriers, it was in exchange for rations and cigarettes.

Fitzy, selected the pen and petrol pump as his medium and weapon of choice, this metaphorically coincides with the saying “The pen (and petrol pump) is mightier than the sword!” It is this reference that provides a vehicle towards placing an emphasis upon our forever changing political facets and environment. Fitzpatrick’s ongoing project is called “S.O.S.” (Symbols of Society) and the Zodiac, this allows Fitzy to present us with an artistic discourse that becomes more apparent through the use of metaphors and hidden narratives. Fitzy tends to addresses current affairs whilst subtly masking over the raw narrative with an aesthetical balance, therefore creating a harmony between his sculptures and depictions. Be it via cynicism, comedy, or romanticism, Fitzy wishes to communicate thought provoking ideas regarding his controversial subject matter.

Harumi Foster [Japan]

Harumi Foster is a Japanese born, London based visual artist. She reflects her thoughts and opinions of everyday experience onto her work, considering not only subject matter but also aesthetics, and quality of work at the same time.

Foster has practiced fine art in Japan, Italy and UK specialises in painting and sculpture.She received a first-class honours degree in art practice from Goldsmiths University of London and graduated from the MA Ceramics and Glass course at the Royal College of Art. She has been taught and have practiced art by both conventional and unconventional strategies. Foster is interested in combining these different ways of thinking and understanding in art. She has had a number of exhibitions in Italy and also in the UK.

The sculpture Fox o’ Nine Tails (a whip with nine knotted lashes) is a part of her installation piece Hunting Horn which reflects her personal view of society including social divisions such as class, race, faith and politics.

"Our society creates categories of any sort for making us easy to understand things and facts in our life. Although this phenomenon often blinds our eyes and mind, and it causes misreading or distorts the realities and the facts. We are bound by the fetters of conventional ideas and rules without any doubts. I question it to myself and to viewers of my work."

Laura Gabe [UK]

Laura Gabe is fascinated by social constructions and conventions, particularly as they are manifested around perceptions of gender roles, and mental health, she examines how this is shown in communication and language.

Pumping Flash was created from an investigation into the hyper extreme stereotypes of gender roles and the social constructions of femininity and masculinity. The video is created from found footage of two sources, the first is the Pumping Iron documentary created in the 1970’s showing men at their most stereotypically masculine. And the second is a 1960’s cleaning advert in which we see a female happily cleaning her home with pride. This video conveys the extremes and allows the audience to consider the part in which they play. Are they following these extreme gender roles? Or do they fall somewhere in between? Are gender roles still prominent in today’s society? How do we identify masculinity and femininity in contemporary society?

Charlie Tuesday Gates [UK]

Charlie Tuesday Gates has a reputation for unique and challenging sculpture, video and performance art that confronts and challenges issues of morality, ethics and the very nature of controversy itself.

Although she doesn’t classify herself as such, Gates has been listed as one of theU.K’s top taxidermists, instrumental in bringing the new wave of taxidermy into the mainstream. Her pioneering series ‘D.I.Y Taxidermy LIVE!’ embraced an entirely new medium of workshops and live demonstrations that simply didn’t exist before.

Gates artwork has been exhibited at MUSEUM ARNHEM appeared on the cover of DESIGN WEEK, inside THE HUFFINGTON POST, TIME OUT, THE INDEPENDENT, NOTION, CLASH, MIX MAG, BIZARRE, DAZED AND CONFUSED & VICE. She has worked with DIESEL, BBC FILM, FILM LONDON, commissioned pieces for Beyonce and Elton John.

Born in Dorset, Gates studied sculpture at Camberwell College of Arts. She lives and works in London and is currently working on her award winning and utterly ground-breaking musical 'Sing For Your Life' featuring real dead animal puppets.

Tommy Graham [UK]

Originally from the Midlands, since (barely) graduating from John Moores university in 2002 Tommy Graham has lived and worked in Liverpool. He has been a practicing artist for over 13 years. "I don't know whether to be proud or depressed by that."

Graham has worked as an animator for music videos, a freelance illustrator and cartoonist, and - most notably - a faceless drone in a soul crushing part-time customer service job. That last one has proved both an excellent resource of existential despair and a semi sustainable means of not starving to death.

From 2007 Graham started doing live paintings at gigs around the city. These paintings culminated in 2012 When Graham entered a two day live painting competition to commemorate the Queens Diamond Jubilee. Graham subverted proceedings by winning both the judges prize and the peoples prize with his depiction of the Queen as Godzilla, laying waste to the city with her flame breath.

"Live paintings are great because if you time it right, people don't realise that they don't like what you're painting until you've already finished. And the type of people who go to small underground music gigs are generally more sympathetic to the type of things I like to paint. Or it could be all the booze there, I supoose. It's probably the booze. My stuff is about robots, break ups, giants smashing cities and the churlish use of my technical abilities to inspire incredulity in others."

Olga Guse [Germany]

Olga Guse studied Art History at The University of Saratov in Russia.Since 2003 lives and works in Dresden, Germany.

Guse is the creator of many surrealistic animated films and has participated in several international film festivals.

"Decadence of Nature" is a short animated piece."Earth pollution is increasing at alarming speed.Fantastic creatures, animals-people try to survive in the new conditions. On the one hand, they suffer from pollution, on the other they continue to sail on the waves of the consumer society."

Peter Hanmer [UK]

The literary theorist and critic Terry Eagleton sums up Peter Hanmer's current practice, “one of the great humanist functions of culture is to open some daylight between its self and the rest of our social practises and institutions so it could actual operate as a critic of them”. Art as a cultural and political critique is important to Hanmer's work through the largely narrative driven events taking place in my sculptural worlds where the extremes of society are humorously played out.

Hanmer primarily makes sculptural works out of animal bones large and small. Within the work he explores a range of themes from the philosophical (belief) to political (Ideology) and environmental (extinction). Taking inspiration from real world events, such as climate change and the banking crisis and then putting those themes into a separate fantastical, satirical world where the normal rules don’t apply and everything is ramped up to an extreme. By primarily using animal bones, to make characters and structures only adds to the poignancy of some of the themes explored. The work is meant to be subversive as well as provoking a reaction from the viewer, characters are purposely doing very human things, sometimes interacting with human props and even the viewer themselves. Through the many layering of themes and narrative driven events taking place in these separate worlds Hanmer is keen to reflect, often humorously, on the events in our own world locally and internationally.

All animal bones used in his work are ethically sourced, and have mostly been found by on walks in his home county of Northumberland.

Peter Hanmer was born in 1992 in Northumberland where he is currently based. He studied at the University of the Creative Arts in Farnham, where he received a BA (hons) in Fine Art in May 2014.

Cindy Hinant [USA]

Cindy Hinant is a New York based feminist artist who utilizes video, audio, internet and digital technologies, as well as performance and traditional art mediums as part of her conceptual based practice.

She received a BFA from the Herron School of Art and Design and holds a MFA from the School of Visual Arts. She has been the recipient of the Robert D. Beckman Jr. Emerging Artist Fellowship and the Edward Albee Visual Artist-in-Residence Fellowship. She has had solo shows at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Joe Sheftel Gallery, and 3A Gallery. She has also participated in group exhibitions at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, the Museo de Arte El Salvador, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, and the Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit.

Her work will be featured in the forthcoming book "New York, New Wave: The Legacy of Feminist Artists in Emerging Practices" by Kathy Battista.

James Hollenbaugh[USA]

James Hollenbaugh is a Pennsylvania-based American Filmmaker and Emmy Nominated Cinematographer predominantly working in small gauge film formats. Focusing primarily in the documentary and experimental genre’s, his work has screened in all fifty states and fourteen different countries. Hollenbaugh's films have screened in institutions, galleries, and museums - including The Venice Biennale, The National Gallery of Art, and Anthology Film Archives. He is the recipient of the 2015 Stellar Award in Documentary from the Black Maria Film Festival. He has been the Program Director for over ten years at MOVIATE, Harrisburg Pennsylvania’s only film cooperative.

Sarah Jane Jones [UK]

Newly graduated from Wimbledon College of Art, where she trained in Technical Arts and Special Effects. Sarah Jane Jones is interested in exploring the ways in which Fine Art and Technical Art Disciplines can both complement and oppose each other."I am just starting my journey as a figurative sculptor."

Vasilis Karvounis [Greece]

Vasilis Karvounis was born in 1982 in Athens. His work mostly deals with Visual Arts through various means and with varying practices approaching the concepts of ecstasy, illusion, disunity and suggestion in relation to conscious and the unconscious.

My Enemies, 2014 : "I am in a dark situation and all I can say is that I am looking forward to our congress as to the slacking of hunger and thirst." (Fotini Tsalikoglou, excerpt from the novel, I Martha Freud). In his aim to interpret how the unconscious works, Freud suggested that it is distinguished by a structure that is divided into three parts, Id the Ego and the Superego. Id, represents the motivations, instincts and biological needs and is inherent from birth. The notion of the Ego is the logical part, it is not innate but it is cultivated through the accumulated experience. The Superego represents all the ethical and social values of the individual, being somehow a moral conscience. He also expressed that the interrelation of the three aforementioned parts define an individual's mental state. The project “My enemies” has as basic references Freud, Beckett and the theatre of the absurd conveying the three mental parts as real and divisive situations. The video shows three characters that discuss and collide with each other creating language games in an environment with a convivial character.

The Krah[Greece]

Demitri Nezis aka The Krah is an artist / illustrator born in England and raised in Athens Greece. He has been living and working in the UK for more that 15 years. Previously working as an artist, illustrator, graphic designer, fashion designer, art curator and in-house in the Creative industry. He sees his work just like hieroglyphics, when people see the images they can read them like an illustrated book without text.

Roisin Larkin [UK]

Roisin Larkin's current studio practice is multi platform, using both traditional three-dimensional modelling and construction techniques as well as mapped projections to explore possibilities surrounding special effects and the body. She uses these techniques to explore our relationship with our aging bodies and the narratives that have been engraved on them, both by the natural aging process and by the way we construct our identities by having our bodies tattooed.

Larkin's aim is to create convincing and realistic images of the psychological reality of an aging individual’s skin. By moving an aging representation of a special moment in a person’s life, from a fading two dimensional image into a vivid reality, she is trying to represent how in someone’s mind the experience still lives, even though the actual image is now like the skin, becoming old and tired.

Ryan Lee [USA]

Ryan Alexander Lee graduated from the Savannah College of Art & Design in Georgia, U.S.A in 2008 with a B.F.A focused on Visual Art and Storytelling. He went on to attend the Safehouse Atelier in San Francisco, where he studied with Carl Dobsky and the artists of Massive Black.

Since 2010, Ryan has worked for a wide range of clients, including Massive Black, Ubisoft, Namco, Wizards of the Coast, Games Workshop, Applibot, and Volta. Ryan was the recent recipient of the Muddy Color's "Rising Stars" award and has been featured in Imagine FX magazine. He also provides instruction and portfolio review to art students from around the country. Currently, he is contributing his works to Magic: the Gathering and Kabam Inc. while living in San Francisco, California.

Simon Lejeune[Belgium]

Simon Lejeune was born in 81 in a small Belgian town. Always fascinated by technology he ended in an art school where he could develop visual aptitudes and eventually being influenced by major sci-fi artists.

He draws and paints surreal cyberpunk worlds where superpowerfull artificial intelligences and tortuous tubular organisms are travelling from virtual to real and fighting for their survival, using nano-technology that allows them to manipulate the matter at atomic level. His intricate, very detailled technique gives him a peculiar analog style that goes in opposition to the overdose of nowadays numeric arts.

Some of his works were published in the reference book "Biomech Art", bringing him along with contemporary artists that are linked to this genre.

Iain Macarthur[UK]

Born in Swindon, England, Macarthur became a fanatic of art at the age of eight when first introduced to art through the medium of cartoon television shows and comic books. In 2008 he graduated from Swindon College with a degree in HND Illustration and hopes to progress to a B.A. in Illustration sometime in the future.

Macarthur's work can be described as surreal and unique in its own way. Using mostly pencil, watercolours and pigment pens, he creates portraits of ordinary people but in a unusual way by, embellishing patterns and watercolour effects into the portrait to give a vivid explosion effect—transforming their faces from something plain to something entirely bizarre and wonderful at the same time.

Dave McKean[UK]

Dave McKean was born in Taplow, Berkshire in 1963. He attended Berkshire College of Art and Design from 1982-86 and, before leaving, started working as an illustrator.

In 1986 he met author Neil Gaiman with whom he has collaborated on many projects since. Their first book, Violent Cases (1987), has been printed in many editions worldwide, and adapted for the stage. Black Orchid (1988), Signal To Noise (1990) for The Face magazine and Mr. Punch (1975). Dave has contributed all the cover illustrations and design for the popular Sandman series of graphic novels, and a collection of this work, Dust Covers, was published in 1998.

Batman's 'Arkham Asylum' (1989) written by Scottish author/playwrite Grant Morrison, still the single most successful graphic novel ever published, was also illustrated by Dave. 1995 saw collaborations with the Rolling Stones (The Voodoo Lounge), and Rachel Pollack (The Vertigo Tarot). Designed over a 150 covers designed, illustrated and photographed since 1990, including recent releases by Michael Nyman, Tori Amos, Real World, Altan, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Bill Laswell, Alice Cooper, Dream Theater, Counting Crows, Front Line Assembly, and Bill Bruford.

Recent collaborations include; The Graveyard Book (Neil Gaiman) which has won the Newberry Medal, the Carnegie, and many other awards; Skeletons (Ray Bradbury); The Big Fat Duck Book (Heston Blumenthal), Squink, Postcard from Paris and Postcard from Brussels (all drawing books). Also, a set of Mythological Creatures stamps from the Royal Mail.His collection of short stories in comics form, Pictures That Tick released in 2000, won the Victoria and Albert Museum Illustrated Book of the Year Award, and several of McKean’s books are in the V&A collection. He has contributed many illustrations to The New Yorker, Playboy and other magazines, and promotional work for the films Blade, Alien Resurrection, The King is Alive, Dust and Sleepy Hollow. He has also created concept illustrations for the 2nd & 3rd Harry Potter films, and designs for Lars von Trier’s interactive project in Copenhagen, House of Zoon.

In the last few years Dave completed his first children’s books. The Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish and The Wolves in the Walls (NY Times Illustrated Book of the Year) both written by Neil Gaiman. Also a book with Stephen King (Wizard & Glass), books and TV films with Iain Sinclair (Slow Chocolate Autopsy, Asylum and The Falconer), and designs for the autobiography of John Cale: What’s Welsh for Zen.Dave to the attention of Lisa Henson from the Jim Henson Company, and together with Neil Gaiman and Dave’s small crew from the shorts, they embarked on MirrorMask, a feature fantasy film for Columbia/Tristar.

He has created extensive designs, films and photographs for the Elton John Broadway musical Lestat for Warner Brothers. The National Theatre of Scotland/Improbable musical theatrical production of Wolves in the Walls opened in Glasgow and London, before transferring to New York. He produced the image to launch The Sony Playstation and also produced campaigns for Smirnoff, British Telecom, 3dfx Voodoo, BMW/Mini, Nike, the British Government’s Social Work Department, and Eurostar.

2011 Richard Dawkins’ The Magic of Reality was released. A book that encourages imaginative, critical, sceptical thinking, and introduces young readers (and anyone really) to the awe-inspiring real world of science.Dave is currently finishing a book of paintings (Nitrate), more travel sketchbooks (Perugia, Bilbao and Venice) and a new graphic novel (Caligaro). Also, new books with Neil Gaiman and David Almond, and a collection of all Dave’s short film projects is in the works for release in 2015/16. He lives on the Isle of Oxney in Kent, England with his wife and studio manager Clare, and their two children.

Ore Miamshick [UK]

Ore Miamshick is a video artist, practicing in the movement of Visionary Art. Her video art revolves around themes of psychedelia, the esoteric and the otherworldly through exploring characters within the self. Ore Miamshick is the alter ego of herself, Rosie Hammick. She uses this as a means for her to fully explore these characters. Her work aims to question what lies beyond our everyday sight, to transcend the physical world and portray inner awareness, allowing the audience to apply themselves to these characters and journeys represented in the visual narratives of her video art.

Miamshick’s inspiration comes from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s film The Holy Mountain and the works of Pippilotti Rist and Alex Grey, as well as Aldous Huxley’s writings among other inspirations. Miamshick has exhibited alongside Gustav Metzger’s Facing Extinction Exhibition 2014, and also been Assistant Art Director for Surreal video artist Rachel Maclean in one of her most recent pieces ‘…Please Sir’. She has also worked with Visionary sculpture and street artist Cityzenkane.

Ore Miamshick is a recent Fine Art BA(Hons) graduate of Farnham UCA and is currently based in Dorset.

“My latest video art piece, Visions of the Esoteric Cycle, is a metaphor for anxiety and the false sense of security and hope certain mental states can bring us. This moulds together a visual narrative that takes us on the ever looping cycle of the hidden emotions we can find in every one of us. Balance and acceptance is the key. Light cannot live without the dark.”

Sophie Morton [UK]

Sophie Morton is a multimedia artist interested in the exploration of relationships between humans and animals living in urban environments. Her work investigates the idea of the anthropocentric era of supposed human dominion, capturing both the participation of the subject animals and how they can be manipulated through human intervention. They exploit our own behaviors of superiority whilst also being exploited themselves.

Morton's sculptural pieces take a confrontational approach, employing the use of fur and non-traditional taxidermy. This can be seen in my recent piece 'Animatronic Taxidermy Fox', consisting of a taxidermy animatronic fox skin. Programmed to subtly move its head, creating an unsettling tableaux, with the animal occupying a space between the familiar and the strange, the living and the dead. Through this use of non-traditional taxidermy, her work forcefully re-situates the animal into our environment. This also provides a counterpoint to her films, encouraging a critical conversation about our awareness of the animal and our ideas of nature.

The human-animal relationship is one which exists in a state of constant flux, and with Morton's practice it is her aim to chart the narrative of its ongoing development."Through my works I am continuously questioning and investigating the obscure relationship that we have with these beings."

Carrie Reichardt [UK]

Carrie is a self-titled craftivist who works from a mosaic-covered HQ, The Treatment Rooms in west London. Her work blurs the boundaries between craft and activism, using the craft techniques of mural, mosaic and screen-printing to create intricate, highly politicised works of art.

Carrie trained at Kingston University and achieved a First class degree in Fine Art from Leeds Metropolitan. She was Artist in Residence at Camberwell Art College in 2009, following this with a period as Artist in Residence at The Single Homeless Project. She remains a proactive supporter.

Carrie has been involved in community and public art projects for over 15 years. She has designed and consulted on large scale mosaic murals, celebrating with local communities. Carrie’s most recent community work is visible in Miravalle, one of the most deprived districts on the fringes of Mexico City. With her partners in Living Space Arts they designed and installed ‘The Art of Recycling’, Harold Hill library, Essex and ‘The Revolution will be Ceramicsed’, London Portobello.

Carrie is frequently called to speak on the use of craft and art as protest. She was invited to speak at National Museums Liverpool’s International Women’s Day lectures in March 2012, and will appear at the British Association of Modern Mosaic forum, held at the V&A October 2012. Carrie’s work is also featured in the latest edition of Ceramics and Print, Paul Scott.

Inspired by William Morris and the long-standing tradition of subversive ceramics in the UK, Carrie created the ‘Mad in England’ trademark. This branded a series of affordable, subversive souvenirs which countered the overwhelming patriotism of 2012 by celebrating the protestor, tapping into the opposing mood of national dissent.

Larry Revoir [USA]

"My Bio. This is my bio. There are many like it, but this one is mine. My bio is my best friend. It is my life. I must master it as I must master my life. My bio, without me, is useless. Without my bio, I am useless. I must write my bio true. I must write straighter than my enemy who is trying to write to me. I must write them before they write me. I will..."

Lucy Sparrow [UK]

Lucy Sparrow hails from Bath, in the West Country of England and works mainly in felt to create art that evokes delight and emotional responses from nearly everyone who sees it. Her world is very much about being able to touch and feel the work she produces and to bring people closer to her creations. Lucy’s work has often been described as childlike because of the bright primary colours that she uses and the quirky little touches that she adds to almost everything she makes. All ages delight in the ingenious way she subverts everyday objects and turns household objects to life with playful faces and a joie de vivre that is totally infectious.

However, lurking under the surface of Lucy’s art there is often a darker side. Whether it’s her felt AK-47s automatic weapons or even her googly-eyed Prozac pills, her work offers plenty of commentary on the consumer world and the politics of modern life. Where others might see the harsh and ugly side of an object, Lucy will take the same thing and disarms its negative aspects with her mastery of felting technique and the juxtaposition of other quirky creations.

The world of Feltism doesn’t assault one’s senses but instead it gently caresses them before making its point felt. Already, Lucy Sparrow’s Feltism has caused quite a stir on the urban art scene and this culminated in 2014 with her audacious and fabulously inventive Cornershop. For the entire month of August, Lucy took over a rundown corner shop in Bethnal Green, East London, and filled it with more than 4000 hand-stitched felt replicas of everyday items that you’d normally find in a local shop. Tins of tomato soup jostled for shelf-space alongside felt cat litter and a freezer-full of felt iced-lollies. The show was an incredible success with visitors from all over the world.

Lucy’s other successful shows include ‘Imitation’, 2012, Hoxton Gallery, London and ‘Softcore’, 2013, Crocus Gallery, Nottingham and her work has been shown alongside great street artists at the ‘Urban Take-Over’, the V&A’s touring Street Art exhibition and in the ‘Urban Art Show’ at the Louise T Blouin Foundation in London. Pieces of Lucy’s art are held in both private and corporate collections throughout the EU and the US.

Ralph Steadman[UK]

Ralph Steadman is a British artist and cartoonist known for his provocative, often grotesque, illustrations frequently featuring spatters and splotches of ink and for his collaboration with American author and journalist Hunter S. Thompson.

While Steadman was serving in the Royal Air Force (1954–56), he learned technical drawing, took a correspondence drawing course, and made many efforts to sell cartoons to newspapers. He sold his first cartoon to the Manchester Evening Chronicle in 1956. When he was discharged, he moved to London, where he intended to make a living as an artist. He found work at the Kemsley Newspaper Group, took drawing lessons, and spent his free time drawing studies at the Victoria and Albert Museum. After rejecting him many times, Punch magazine not only accepted one of his drawings but featured it on the cover in 1961.

Though his earliest work did not reflect the biting style he became known for, Steadman’s content always had a satirical bent. Once he began working in a more-provocative mode, many publications deemed his material too offensive to print. In 1961 the U.K. political and current events magazine Private Eye was launched, and Steadman’s drawing Plastic People, which Punch had rejected, was printed in its 11th issue. Throughout the 1960s Steadman continued to focus on his academic art training. From 1961 to 1965 he studied at the London School of Printing and Graphic Arts (now the London College of Communication at the University of the Arts London).

Feeling a lack of freedom in London to publish the kind of work he was producing, Steadman began traveling back and forth to the United States in search of a more-hospitable publishing environment. He began publishing his work in Rolling Stone. During one of those trips in 1970, Steadman met Thompson through Scanlan’s Monthly, an irreverent and short-lived publication. Thompson and Steadman together produced a story on the Kentucky Derby, the first of many collaborations. Thompson introduced Steadman to what he called “gonzo” journalism, a new form of highly personal reportage. This no-holds-barred approach to expression spoke to Steadman in a profound way. The next year he illustrated Thompson’s best-known work, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1972), a story based on Thompson’s drug-induced experiences traveling across America to Las Vegas with his attorney in the 1960s. Steadman’s illustrations and imagery were adapted for a 1998 film of the same name, starring Johnny Depp. Neither the novel nor the film was a critical success when it was released, but both have since become cult classics.

Steadman had steady work as a political cartoonist with a variety of publications in the U.K. and U.S. throughout the late 1960s and ’70s, but he had garnered a reputation for producing controversial and sometimes unprintable content. His depictions of politicians (and humans, in general) were dark, even grotesque, and, with their exaggerated physical features, they revealed hidden truths and horrors, mostly about politics, corporate greed, and violence. Steadman often cited a particularly cruel headmaster from his youth as the reason for his distrust of authority. He also felt a strong compulsion to change the world, which he had hoped to do in some small way, by making political art with strong messages.

Steadman worked with pen and brush in ink, also using acrylic and oil paint, etching, silk screen, and collage. His training in technical drawing is evident in his precise treatment of machinery and human and animal anatomy. His creative process was organic and often began with a blot of ink on a white page. He treated unintended marks as opportunities to take his work in a different direction.

Daniel J Stoneham [UK]

Daniel J Stoneham recently Graduated from the University of Northampton. He has always loved photography; "I’ve had a range of experience in a range of fields within photography. Not having the skills to paint or draw, photography was a way for me to unlock my creativity, I soon feel in love with the camera."

Stoneham has always had a keen interest to create images that would stand out from the rest. His style of photography is quite dark and the subject matters are usually controversial. There’s something within Stoneham's creative mind that wants to create images that aren’t aesthetically pleasing, that are dark, gritty and somewhat grotesque.

Even though he has used the subject matter that would usually cause a stir and be controversial, he is always willing and wanting to expand and diverse in his subject matters.

"My name is Daniel J Stoneham, I have always wanted to stand out with my images. I fell in love with the work of Damien Hirst and loved how he created controversial art. I have never had much skill with a pencil or a paintbrush, so photography was a way for me to express my creative side through composition and depth. I love creating work that will cause a stir and get a reaction."

Mike Turner [UK]

Born in London in 1969, Mike Turner is an artist working in the areas of metalsmithing and sculpture, whose work predominantly consists of resin encapsulated metal forms , hyper-real human features, carved acrylic insectiods and combinations thereof.

With a BA (Hons) Degree in jewellery design, Turner has worked professionally as a jewellery designer/maker, metal fabricator, sculptor, prop maker and SFX designer. He has lived in Sydney,Australia, and for 5 years in Chengdu, China.

His work has been shown in over 40 group exhibitions as well as 3 solo shows and has been featured in numerous publication including : Unclasped- British Contemporary Jewellery(1996), and The Compendium Finale of Contemporary Jewellery (2009)His work is held in the Collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum,as well private collections throughout the UK, Europe, Australia, Japan and China.

Vortman [USA]

7/17/2015 Salt Lake City, UTAH. USARJ Rushmore introduced me to the term Endurance Artist. I fall under that category because I make art everyday. Sometimes people see it, sometimes they don't. I work to improve my craft and I make art because it is my calling. I create what doesn't exist. I experiment and expect some pieces to fail. I have been introducing text into my art by collaging a different word in Spanish everyday this year. I combine mediums and work without a net. I have doctorates in Ramble and Endurance. Thank you for your consideration.Yours in Art,Vort

Giles Walker [UK]

Giles Walker has been working with robots for the last 20 years. As a full-time member of the guerilla-art group THE MUTOID WASTE COMPANY, he started building kinetic sculptures and robots from materials found in various scrap yards around Europe.

He has exhibited his work around the world, touring in Europe, Japan, Australia, Russia, Ukraine and USA.

LG White [Denmark]

LG White is a Dutch contemporary fine artist who has been based in the UK (London) since 2010.

Inspired by poetry and music, LG's work references her life and surroundings. Often and always mischievious, her work encompasses a varied subject matter that is driven by her personal life experiences and her keen interest in history, politics, philosophy, literature, dance, film, science and pop culture.

Beautifully detailed pencil on card depictions of imagined landscapes are juxtaposed with a triptych of haunting photo etchings. Skulls are transformed in homage to pop art in the form of comic book characters, then, in turn, LG's work progresses to reference contemporary Americana - the telephone, the silver dollar. The journey from the surreal landschape to photo-real objects is rich in LG's humour and wit, strewn with references to history, philosophy, film, pop culture and science.

Darko Zarevski [Macedonia]

Darko Zarevski-Darica was born 1989 in Macedonia. He graduated as a painter & graphic designer at Academy of fine arts in Skopje in 2013.

His works describes social apathy and play with human psychology. He mixes classic art with a modern way of living. His lucid visions of usual situations flow with irony.

"The raw waste materials, of the consumer society ... That gallop with the eternal transition, are a growing part of the surfaces on which these works have been performed. Used, discarded, old and forgotten ...... Left as a pile of ruins. All parts are made with the spray, and little acrylic. I decided for spray paint, since I was fascinated by his practical and easy applying feature, the power of pressure bursts, releasing countless tiny drops pounding on the surface.Maybe that fascination is based on a direct empathy, not only with this ready-made product ... but directly with the pressure that contains and releases. The same pressure may be paraphrased with one internal, psycho physical …."

Yuri Zupančič[USA]

Born 1980 and largely self-taught, Yuri has been exhibiting / performing since 1997, curating since 2005. Raised in Dodge City, he spent formative years in Lawrence, Kansas.

Lawrence is home base, but much of his life is spent abroad. Yuri has created and exhibited art in Lawrence, Kansas City, Denver & Boulder CO, Paris FR, London UK, Berlin DE, Sydney & Brisbane AU, Wellington NZ, and Split HR.